The rich have tried for a century to convince us that socialism is bad. Well, it’s bad for the rich, but not for working people who should own the fruits of their labour.

Mary Pratt, respect to the Woodland School but you will forever be the greatest positive influence on Canadian painting there has ever been or ever could be This is so fun and good

Towels Holly Farrell 2016

In a footnote, Judge VanDkye wonders that the the school was trying "to give children the false impression that all the adults in the school personally share the same woke perspective" about trans issues. Yes, "woke." Unironically. In a circuit court decision.

The certain sort of person whose “politics” (it’s mostly entirely apolitical) is to pour unending torrents of abuse on others—while claiming the mantle of people who organize, do care work, protect our neighbours. This type of wrecking, in wider discourse not institutions: does it have a name?

My proudest moment of 2022 was seeing Sabreina elected

WIRED sent me to Mississippi to report a different kind of feature about reading. Why are third-graders there acing standardized tests but older students are still struggling with comprehension? What does measuring "literacy" even mean?

Knowing it originally signaled no sex scenes makes a lot more sense to me. The art style looks like something you could hand a young kid. But some of the plot descriptions you see for these things do make it sound like NotRey and NotKylo are going to get down to business in a big way.

8. The review's recommendations mark the latest step in an unmistakable movement across Europe: the expansion of transgender healthcare. For years, American coverage fixated on restrictions in the United Kingdom to claim the continent was turning back. That claim was always false.

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Well this is gonna suck for all y’all :(

Since I looked up the numbers anyway, here's Ontario's planned wildfire spending vs. actual spending (as well as actual divided by plan) for every budget year since 2012, with 2026 actual spending not yet known.

The people who drew the short straws on responding to Haus’s comic really must have regretted coming into work yesterday. They’re on their second day of it and you can literally feel their will to live draining away

What pisses me off about this capitulation to the “trans scare” rhetoric is how neoliberalism is ostensibly an ideology of personal liberty until it deems certain personal liberties politically disadvantageous, in which case it will immediately snap to align with fascism and bigotry

no reporter who needs to be conditioned or convinced to shape a story a specific way, no teacher imperfectly white washing colonization, no priest torn between doctrine and his instinct for kindness.

I think this is an interesting insight. The pure reification of capital into ideology that LLMs represent is interesting and the observation that other humans are now completely out of the ideologizing process is important, I think! It vastly reduces the opportunities for machine breaking

hmm, calling people "Parasites".... looks like Tom's made his choice!

Many want to enforce #HamOnt suburbs as places where lower income people just aren't welcome. Our community's worst impulses on further display. Keanin Loomis, Rob Cooper, Ned Kuruc etc are more than happy to stoke that for electoral gain even if 60 families have to wait longer for a home.

last month i found two undocumented breeding pairs of piping plovers in michigan, increasing the known population of the great lakes piping plover by 2%! my latest newsletter post is about that plus the species' precarious future. ryanmandelbirder.substack.com/p/these-plov...

Network State Cult Crushed in Malaysia! Balaji Srinivasan’s bizarre “Network School” sought to create a tech “micro-nation” on Malaysian soil. “No investor, company, or organisation can be placed above the sovereignty of the country’s law,” say local officials. www.msn.com/en-my/news/o...

So I went back to hang out with the Plover chicks... 😍 Am I to blame...? 😇 🧐 If you zoom in closely, you'll see what the little one's focused on: an unfortunate little bug that ended up as its snack... 🦟 Advance for #WaderWednesday #cute #birds #nature #photography #naturephotography

Yes. Tariff responses are bad (lousy!) for our economy and for our consumers. Hit back with cutting the defense spending increases the Americans imposed on us! That would be win-win-win.

A Chinese shoe manufacturer made this video to show how indestructible their shoes are and y'all I'm much too gay for this 🥵

What's more, this is not just Kirchick. @theatlantic.com is abhorrently playing *up* the most hateful part of Kirchick's screed, changing the headline since publication to focus on the "parasite" language. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

A logger is not a “lumberjack” that’s like calling a Uber driver a coachman

He’s soooooo Canadian protect this man

This remains in grave jeopardy because there is a very stupid Supreme Court, but it is refreshing to see because the assertion of *executive privilege* by some fuckin dipshit rando was one of the all time “they can’t at all be serious but I know FedSoc and I know they’re serious” moments for me.

DC Cir. upholds contempt of Congress convictions of Trump aide Peter Navarro, who defied a Jan. 6 Committee's subpoena by asserting executive privilege even though Trump never did. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

you mean our prime minister? he’s usually out of the country, but when he’s around he lives on the grounds of Rideau Hall and works on Parliament Hill

"[Indiana] FSSA officials stated that amid a budget shortfall the state couldn't afford to pay $7 million for the state to opt into the program [that allowed] 669,000 eligible children to receive $80 million in food access during the last year Indiana participated in the program in 2024"

As someone who asked government for thirty years, and I mean directly to the highest echelons every chance I could, for someone to take seriously our appalling security posture with NATO and the USA, and was repeatedly there-thered about it, I’m furious seeing the same people now with “concerns”

"A video shared widely on Italian media shows Fakir, who reportedly had heart issues and asthma, repeatedly calling out “aiuto, aiuto, basta” (Help, help, that’s enough) as two officers sit on him and ambulance workers look on."

Okay this is overly general. It’s not “administration policies,” generally, it’s THE MASS TERMINATION OF EXISTING WORK PERMITS due to TPS terminations. That’s the imminent labor shock here.

The incredible thing with dealing with a recent dispute with a huge retailer was going through, I’m not kidding you, FIVE chatbots, *four of them pretending very unsuccessfully to be a human being*, before hitting a human interaction and someone who could therefore understand the problem

These new "action" spots have been placed randomly and will continually change to keep things fresh and exciting.

Just knock it off with the gay and trans “jokes”, please. K thx

you can literally commit any crime you want if you're in a car

if you just went by the headline you might think the author was rehabilitating an egomaniacal white supremacist for no reason other than shock value. not so! it's actually to rewrite the "dems should moderate on wealth taxes and trans rights" article for the 1000th time

Troy Jackson. Lovely man. Quite left. Could not be more Maine (people from the north country sound more Canadian than any twelve randomly selected Canadians put together). I think he's a great choice in terms of selling a candidacy to Mainers. He's going to become quickly as hated as Platner.

there were two old IP releases that massively, massively overperformed expectations that were released in the late 2000s and had stars who took the role to get away from a reputation as difficult to work with due to substance abuse issues, and we picked the wrong one to make our culture

you’d get sued

In February, USA Rugby banned trans women from all levels of one of the world’s most inclusive sports. What happened next was telling. Across the country, teams refused to comply. The story of the Baltimore Ferals, who are pushing back: www.thebanner.com/sports/rugby...

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it's actually the complete opposite of this but american politicians arent allowed to say phrases like "relationship to capital" to reporters because the FBI will activate the chip in their heads that makes them explode

I'm always delighted when I manage to catch the light in a bird's eye, as with both these barn swallows from this morning. #birds

Humorism is back btw The new humors are estrogen, testosterone, dopamine, and cortisol Once you notice this you'll see it everywhere